Back from BEstival

Just back from Camp Bestival, where Anonymous were one of four morris teams performing over the weekend.  (Wyvern Jubilee, Festus Derriman and Hobos were the others)

Great weekend.  The weather was perfect.  Lots of sunshine, but never too hot to dance.  It's very much a festival aimed at the family market with lots of activities for children as well as the music for the adults.

Jugglers, puppets, plays, acrobats, commedians, all sorts of stuff - and morris dancers.

I was impressed by the trollies many parents were using.  Four wheels with a flat platform about  four feet by 2 foot on top (some bigger ,some smaller).  Add a small fence round the edge and a long handle at the front, and the kids and all their stuff can be taken everywhere.  In the evening, put the children in their sleeping bags in the trolley and the baby-sitting problem is solved in a moment.  You simply take them with you. I saw loads of small children curled up in their mobile beds.  

a lot of people decorated their trollies with fancy tops, flags, fairy light, all sorts of fun ideas.  I only wish I'd thought to take some photos.

Lamb's Lettuce

 On Monday I planted a row of corn salad, aka lamb's lettuce.  Variety 'Vit'  (I'm trying to record varieties here so that a year from now when I've forgotten what I planted, I can come back and check what varieties did well.)




It's a simple salad vegetable and is hardy unless the weather is really bad, so I should be able to crop some through the autumn (depending on how fast it comes up)  I may add a second row later on to have a succession.  I may possibly need to add a cloche when the weather is really bad.

I didn't plant anything today, I was feeling a bit wheezy and tired.  Hopefully, I'll get something done tomorrow.  Richard picked all the blackcurrants yesterday, so we'll freeze most of those.  I've got some redcurrants to nibble.  I love those and they cropped reasonably well.  Having netting made a big difference.  We got more than the birds this year!